[单项选择]The president proposed that we should bring the meeting to a close.
A. stated
B. said
C. suggested
D. announced

[单项选择]President Bush has proposed adding optional personal accounts as one of the central elements of a major Social Security reform proposal. Although many details remain to be worked out, the proposal would allow individuals who choose to do so to divert part of the money they currently pay in Social Security taxes into individual investment accounts. Individuals would have a choice of fund managers, and the return that they earn from those accounts would then partially determine the Social Security benefit they receive when they retire.
Individual accounts pose a number of important and complex design and implementation issues, including how to lower the cost of administering accounts so that they do not erode the value of pensions that individuals receive when they retire, how many and what kinds of fund choices should be offered, and how to engage workers in choosing funds.
In the late 1990s, Sweden added a mandatory individual accounts tier to its public pension system. This
A. People can transfer some money from their investment accounts to the Social Security taxes
B. The return people earn from their accounts can decide their social benefit decisively
C. People can spent more on investment and meanwhile receive more benefit in the future
D. These accounts will determine how much people can receive in their lives

[填空题]President Clinton has proposed to raise the minimum wage for this underprivileged to ______ per hour.